By the time the guards found it in the tall grass on Friday morning the male
rhino, which stood 6ft to its shoulders and more than 12ft long alive, was a
hornless carcass buzzing with flies.

It was the second to be killed by poachers in a week and the twelfth this year
in Assam’s Kaziranga National Park. The toll — already more than half of
that seen in the whole of last year — has prompted warnings that Indian
rhinos could be wiped out from their last remaining haven.